Rituais de rebelião à brasileira: distintividade cultural e reconhecimento étnico nas Semanas Culturais do Toldo Chimbangue em Chapecó-SC

Abstract

This research’s preposition is to reflect on the multiple plans of experiences that have mobilized the Semana Cultural’s ritual developed over the few years, in occasion of the 19th April, in indigenous lands (IL) in Brazil’s south region, expecially to Toldo Chimbangue Land, in Chapeco, Santa Catarina. Since the Federal Constitution of 1988, indigenous people, motivated by new acquired rights and the possibility to develop an inter-cultural education, a specifically one as well as differentiated on, have organized cultural events at indigenous schools. Since 2000, cultural activities organized by teachers, students and indigenous communities have allowed the Kaingang and Guarani to tell their histories and express their culture. This research aimed to make an ethnography about the context and scenario of the meetings of the Kaingang, Guarani and the general public in the event “Semana Cultural” as well as observe the construction of narratives expressed by different groups in a context of interaction in which exists a confrontation of visions and division of the world. During this research it was also possible to follow the event’s organization. The understanding of ways of knowledge, in Barth’s perspective (1987), guided the selection of diacritic marks in the construction and affirmations of the Kaingang and Guarani identities. These processes expressed the negotiations of attributed meaning to what is said to be Kaingang and Guarani ways of knowledge. We have also aimed to understand the processes started by the organization of this event in what concerns the defense and regulation of indigenous lands, in their search for full citizenship and in the results of relations of distinction and cultural performance. The experiences lived by the Kaingang and Guarani groups showed the readings and the new information of their traditions, that are marked by a symbolic fight in the realm of “moral of knowledge”. Here the aim is the respect and the recognition, in all distinctions, of the aspects that constitute them